So Matt K if I do a flip using hard money and put my money into it but since I have none if I pull out a couple 0% first year credit cards and say I do the flip in six months (is that reasonable for a single family household?)

a home w/ FHA needs to be your primary household for 1 year.... and by that it means you have to live in it the majority of the time.

By age 16 I found myself able to handle most household repairs. 

Household furniture must be positioned and/or elevated to allow adequate air flow underneath and between furnishings and adjacent walls.

I agree with @Max Householder to have a meeting/call with them and find out why they have not had any showing.

So I am now teaching, which cut our household income by about a third.

The way I operate with my household (and future rentals) is using multiple "micro savings" (--> MS), each with its own designation (e.g. yearly expenses / vacation expenses / general savings etc).

If you keep it segregated, that works out to 20 as a household (10 for you, 10 for spouse).

In the last recession/depression households consolidated for the most part. 

One of the big demographics in the area that also seem to impact the potential for growth is the household median income.